Migration and its Determinants: an Europe 2020 Perspective

The main theories of migration argue that migration is caused by the level of development of thehost countries. This fact is also confirmed by the empirical analyses from the scientific literature. Due to the changes occurred after the economic crisis the main concern of European Union isfocused on...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prada Elena Maria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ovidius University Press 2017-01-01
Series:Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series
Subjects:
Online Access:http://stec.univ-ovidius.ro/html/anale/ENG/2017/Section-III/20_v2.pdf
Description
Summary:The main theories of migration argue that migration is caused by the level of development of thehost countries. This fact is also confirmed by the empirical analyses from the scientific literature. Due to the changes occurred after the economic crisis the main concern of European Union isfocused on Europe 2020 perspectives. This analyse merge migration with four of five majordomains regarding Europe 2020: employment, research adn development, education, poverty andsocial exclusion. The data set used comes from Eurostat and includes a time span of 10 yearsstarting with 2004, for all 28 countries of the European Union.
ISSN:2393-3127
2393-3127